English 12 first 50 words

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  1. wrought
    shaped to fit by altering the contours of a pliable mass
  2. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  3. vehement
    marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions
  4. usurp
    seize and take control without authority
  5. pecuniary
    relating to or involving money
  6. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  7. omnipotent
    having unlimited power
  8. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  9. precipitous
    extremely steep
  10. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  11. belie
    be in contradiction with
  12. tempestuous
    characterized by violent emotions or behavior
  13. subjugate
    make subservient; force to submit or subdue
  14. inculcate
    teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
  15. facetious
    cleverly amusing in tone
  16. caustic
    capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
  17. elegiac
    resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
  18. callous
    emotionally hardened
  19. puerile
    displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
  20. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  21. abjure
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  22. homogeneous
    all of the same or similar kind or nature
  23. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  24. enfranchise
    grant freedom to, as from slavery or servitude
  25. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  26. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  27. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  28. lexicon
    a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words
  29. fatuous
    devoid of intelligence
  30. recapitulate
    summarize briefly
  31. vacuous
    devoid of matter
  32. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  33. churlish
    having a bad disposition; surly
  34. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  35. winnow
    the act of separating grain from chaff
  36. circumlocution
    an indirect way of expressing something
  37. kinetic
    relating to the motion of material bodies and their forces
  38. bellicose
    having or showing a ready disposition to fight
  39. feckless
    generally incompetent and ineffectual
  40. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  41. epiphany
    a usually sudden insight, perception, or understanding of something
  42. quotidian
    found in the ordinary course of events
  43. ardent
    characterized by intense emotion
  44. ameliorate
    make better
  45. predilection
    a predisposition in favor of something
  46. chimerical
    like a grotesque product of the imagination
  47. progeny
    the immediate descendants of a person
  48. imbue
    spread or diffuse through
  49. hallowed
    worthy of religious veneration
  50. hubris
    overbearing pride or presumption
Created on Thu Jan 11 09:45:01 EST 2018 (updated Thu Jan 11 09:48:21 EST 2018)

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